Climate averages 1991–2020
Queens weather
in December.
A cold, wet month: the 10th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cold month in Queens: daytime highs average 6.3°C and nights cool to about -0.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 105 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes December a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 19 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Brooklyn (10 km away). In December its highs average 6.1°C, about as warm as Queens, with 100 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Queens ranks joint 321st of 498 for the warmest December highs and joint 408th of 498 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 498 cities is 10.5°C; Queens is 4.2°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.8°C to 3.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 105 mm to 85 mm.
The annual picture
December in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Queens climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.5°C-3.8°C | -3.8°C | 85 | 9.2 | 9.610 h |
| February | 4.7°C-3.5°C | -3.5°C | 80 | 8.8 | 10.611 h |
| March | 8.7°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 107 | 10.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.7°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 92 | 10.6 | 13.313 h |
| May | 20.1°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 85 | 10.8 | 14.414 h |
| June | 25.2°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 95 | 10.6 | 15.015 h |
| July | 28.3°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 94 | 10.4 | 14.815 h |
| August | 27.3°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 98 | 10.4 | 13.814 h |
| September | 23.6°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 92 | 9.1 | 12.513 h |
| October | 17.4°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 101 | 8.4 | 11.211 h |
| November | 11.5°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 81 | 8.3 | 10.010 h |
| December, selected | 6.3°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 105 | 9.7 | 9.39 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
December in nearby cities
- Brooklyn in DecemberUnited States · 10 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low -0.9°C · 100 mm rain
- New York City in DecemberUnited States · 15 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low -1.4°C · 100 mm rain
- Manhattan in DecemberUnited States · 16 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low -1.4°C · 100 mm rain
- The Bronx in DecemberUnited States · 19 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low -1.4°C · 105 mm rain
- Yonkers in DecemberUnited States · 28 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low -1.2°C · 102 mm rain
- Staten Island in DecemberUnited States · 29 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low -0.7°C · 100 mm rain
- Newark in DecemberUnited States · 29 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low -1.4°C · 103 mm rain
- Passaic in DecemberUnited States · 31 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low -1.4°C · 103 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Queens) is explained once on the Queens year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
The Bronx lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.